Independent Senator for South Australia Nick Xenophon writes:
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The Federal Government’s decision to delay the introduction of its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and to provide further support for major polluters will not receive my support in the Senate.
The Government’s CPRS is fundamentally flawed, their model is unfixable and the changes announced today are simply window dressing.
If you give a lame duck a hair-cut, it is still a lame duck.
The government’s proposed scheme is ‘all stick and no carrot’, and the scheme will see tens of billions of dollars churned through government coffers. The emission reduction targets proposed by the government are far too low.
Climate change is real and we need a scheme that will effectively tackle this global crisis. Te government’s CPRS doesn’t do that. The flawed design will tank the economy and not fix the problem of global warming.
The government must provide greater incentives for industry, the farming sector and households to find additional ways to reduce carbon emissions.
There are things we can do right now independent of the CPRS. The government must not put all its eggs in the CPRS basket.
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Have Your Say!
May 6, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Please click on all Andrew Bolt’s links (in blue).
Very educational :-$
May 6, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Further to our PM and Co’s deferral on the ETS
On researching back to previous events to do with Climate Change, Emissions Trading etc. the name Ching Hai comes up again, from Andrew Bolt.
It appears that “Supreme Master Ching Hai” has been an advisor to Ross Garnaut, and hence an advisor to our government on Climate Change.
How many other crazies have been involved in this scam?
There is also a links to Dr James Hansen, NASA G.I.S.S – climate advisor to the Obama regime and to our own PM Kevin Rudd. Dr James Hansen has also been featured in discussions about the dangers of Climate Change on Ching Hai’s Supreme Master TV.
There appears to be no response to Rudd’s announcement of the deferral of the ETS, from Supreme Master.
May 6, 2009 at 11:10 am
Hi John Michelmore,
“Climate change is real and we need a scheme that will effectively tackle this global crisis.”
Sounds like ‘more of the same, more of the same’ from Nick X. – which basically shows that he has been drinking from the same old “Green KoolAid” that has been handed down from the Goracle onwards.
Symptoms of KoolAid consumption are:
Closure of eyes, (I cannot see – evidence of Ice shelf pictures being recycled year after year)
Hard of hearing,(I cannot hear)
Unable to accept ideas from learned people.(I cannot accept that ideas from Ian Plimer, Bob Carter or Roy Spencer et al, may be right).
If the growing concern from some NASA scientists, Russian scientists and an increasing amount of Western scientists that as indicated by the low solar activity, we may be coming into a cooler period – (a Maunder type minima), with poor growing conditions, lower stock production and increased requirements for energy.
If this situation does happen, we are unprepared.
Increases in temperature makes life hard, with drought, lack of water lower food production and some loss of life.
Decreases in temperature are deadly, with loss of crops, breakdown of energy distribution, loss of water and sewerage. Evident is the losses of life in this recent cold ‘snap’ in the US and in China, with temperatures in the -40C and lower.
Natural climate change is real, we must make sure we can adapt to what nature deals out to us.
May 6, 2009 at 10:36 am
I think Nick X may have overcommented slightly when he states that a CPRS or ETS that Australia can introduce could “fix the problem of global warming.”
Again we have the problem that politicians are convinced humans caused this climate change and therefore we can fix it by doing something about it in Australia.
Firstly, what if it is natural and caused by sun cycles etc, can the human race fix it?
Secondly if the human race did partially cause it, where is the evidence we can reverse it, even if we did partially cause it?
OK the climate is changing, now wouldn’t the human race be better adapting and preserving our finite resources without the imposition of another tax, based on science that is not conclusive yet.
The solutions are already out there, including nuclear power and the rest of the “more sustainable” options, lets forget a new tax and get on with adapting to our ever changing environment.